The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1887-09-29
planned to the police, but there is little
hope of catching the rascals.

planned to the police, but there is little
hope Of catching the raScals.
TROUBLE IN TEXAS.
HOUSTON, Tex, Sept. 26.-Word was
brought in last evening that an inSur-
rectiOn was imminent among the blacks
in Matagorda County. The Sheriff of
Matagorda County sent a courier to
Sheriff Hickey of BroZoria County, ask
ing for immediate asSiStan &c 10 put
down an inSuITection. The courier
stated that over 200 negroes were I'M
der arms in Matagorda and the excite
ment among the whites is very great.
The trouble arose over the attempt of a
colOred constable TO arrest white man
who resided on Caney Creek. The con-
stable was found dead lying in the
creek. The negroes believe that the
white men in this vicinity murdered
the constable because he had warrant
for one of their number. Later reports
last night stated that Sheriff Hickey
had raised posse of fifty mounted
white men and started for Matagorda,
while the sheriff of Matagorda was en-
route to the scene of trouble with a
hundred mounted men. at noon to
day an alarming report reaches the city
that the Sheriff's forces have arrived
and active hostilitieS have begun. The
Houston Light Guards have just re-
ceived orders to leave on a special train
for the town of Columbia, Bragaria
County.
THE ANARCHISTS NoN-CoAIMITAL.
CHICAGO, Sept. 26.-''No answer"
Such was response reporter received
to a message he sent to the condemned
Anarchists in the county Jail desiring
to know if they had anything to say in
reference to a dispatch from New
York, which represented Mrs. w. 7.
Black as saying that their wives had
resolved as soon as they were
executed, to murder their children, and
then commit suicide themselves, and
that Miss Van Zandt had expressed
the determination to die at the same
hour that August Spies did, and so on.
The reporter had to act through the
jail officials in communicating with the
Anarchists, so strict is the watch now
kept over them. Sheriff Watson has
given strict orders that no one be al
lowed to see them, and they have them
selves requested that no newspaper
intruders be allowed to approach their
calls. Anarchist Oscar Neebe, under
sentence for fifteen years in the peni-
Tertiary, was taken from the county
jail by a deputy sheriff at $50 tonight,
and left for Joliet over the Chicago &
Alton at O'Clock to commence serving
out his sentence.
FOUL PLAY SUSPECTED.
CHICAGO, Sept. 26.-At Wunder
Cemetery yesterday just as the re-
mains of Sophia Morftz. girl about
20, were about to be inferred, several
policemen rushed among the mOurners
and took possession of the corpse. The
casket was taken to the cemetery vault
where it is still being held this
morning, pending an investigation by
the police. Deceased was domestic of
rather handsome face. She died very
suddenly.
JAKE MUST GO.
NEW YORK, Sept. 26.-The decision
in the Sharpe case has been affirmed by
the general term. All four of the
appealed to the Court of Appeals, but
Sharpe will be sent to Sing Sing i'm
ATTORNEY Nelson Of Sharpe's counsel
said tonight that undoubtedly an ap-
plication for a stay would be made to
| the Court of Last Resort, and Sharpe
would not see the states prison pend
sistant District Attorney Nicols said
that an application for Shapes COM
mitment to prison would be made at
once, and he would doubtlessly be
sent to prison within forty
eight hours. Gen. Roger A.
Pryor was seen about the decision, he
said: Then Sharpe goes to prison.
to the Court of Appeals in the face of
the unanimous decision of the justices
of Oyer and Terminer. Sharpe did not
hear the decision until this evening. He
was not much affected by the news.
HE WANTED THE WOMAN.
PHILADELPHIA, Sept. &c. d. For
rest, who said he had been proprietor
of the Park Hotel at Billings, Mont,
for some time, called upon the chief of
Il znAr -. Il Aerksn kralN hat
/ q woman with whom he had lived for
sixteen years as man and wife, had
left Billings last August with man
named Joel u. Thompson, who was at
one time boarder at the hotel, but who
by reason of sickness and his destitute
circumstances had been taken care of
by Mr.. Forrest and his mistress, and
finally given position in the establish
ment. Last August, Mr.. Forrest
states, he was absent from Billings for
several weeks, during which time the
hotel was destroyed by fire. Upon his
return his wife, as he had recog-
nized the woman, complained of
illness and was sent by him
to st. Paul with 1900 in
bank draft, which, says he, she con-
verted into cash and married Thomp-
son, who with the woman was finally
traced to this city by means OF the
farmers trunk. Upon Mr.. Forests
arrival here he located the pair and had
them arrested, when the woman ac-
knoWledged that she still had 81 200 of
the money left. at the hearing this
afternoon, however, Mr.. Forrest de-
clared that he did not desire to prose-
cute either of the parties, and that he
had decided to take the woman back to
Montana with him.
GUILTY OF MURDER.
NEW YORK, Sept. 26.-The jury in
the case of Dan Lyons, who was tried
for killing Joseph Quinn, the athlete,
returned verdict OF guilty OF murder
in the first degree.
MURDERERs ARRESTED.
NESS CITY, Kas., Sept. 26.-S. S.
Spangler was arrested as principal, and
three others as accessories in the muir
der of Milo McCaskey.
CUNNING MIKE UNEASY.
CHICAGO, Sept. 26.-M. @. Mcdonald
will go into the Criminal Court tO-mOr-
row and surrender ex-Warden Varnen
, and ex-County Commissioner Van Pelt,
into the hands of the law, and ask for
the surrender of his bonds aggregating
S45, 900. He gives as his reason that in
case the Anarchists should blow up the
, Jail and the remains of Van Pelt and
! Varnell not be found thereafter, the
states attorney might insist that he
, had smuggIed them into Canada, and
so have his bonds declared forfeited.
| A WRECK ON THE IRON MOUNTAIN.
r LITTLE Rock, Ark, Sept. 26.-The
/ north bound passenger train on the
l Iron Mountain Road was wrecked neal
5 Walnut Bridge, Ark, this morning
a The members of the TeXarkana anC
3 Hot Springs G. A. r. Posts wer1
/ among the passengers en- route for st
Y Louis. The list of casualties canno
I be obtained at this time.
s HURLED FROM A TRESTLE.
!. JACKSON, Tenn, Sept. 27.-One o
: the worst wrecks which ever occurre,
Q on the Mobile s. Ohio Railroad hap
opened about two miles south of thi
place this morning. An entire passen
n ger train, except the engine, wa
y hurled from a trestle while runnin
d forty-five miles an hour at AndoveI
10 thirty persons were injured, althoug
l. by what seems almost a miracle, non